Mireille Paquet

Mireille Paquet holds the Concordia Research Chair on the Politics of Immigration at Concordia University and is the scientific director of the Équipe de recherche sur l’immigration au Québec et ailleurs (ÉRIQA). She has held fellowships at Harvard University and UC Berkeley and was the recipient of a Concordia University Research Award in Social Sciences.

In 2020, she was selected as the inaugural Scholar in Residence of the Centre of Excellence of the Canadian Federation at the Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP), and in 2022, she was an International Research Fellow at the Institut Convergences Migrations at the Collège de France. Mireille is directly involved in public policy, acting as a consultant and advisor for different government departments and NGOs. She maintains an active presence as a public intellectual by engaging in outreach through traditional media and by publishing articles in accessible venues in French and in English.